Spectacular duel of Colombians in the South American Cup 2022.
Steven Mendoza led this Tuesday the comeback of the Ceará Brazilian, who defeated 2-1 a Independent from Andres Felipe Roa who played in inferiority from the 12th minute, on the first day of the Group G of the contest.
The team he leads Dorival Júnior made good that soccer maxim of “new coach, sure victory” and added the first three points in the Conmebol silver tournament, which also serve to put a patch to the irregular start of the season.
The intensity marked the start of the game, so much so that at 12 minutes Costa went to the showers for double warning. Alert in the Argentine box.
Ceará, despite their numerical superiority, could not clearly reach the rival area. Alone mendoza peeked out from the left flank of the battered lawn of the Castelao de Fortaleza Arena. And while the Brazilians were thinking about how to hurt Avellanada’s team, Togni’s blow came.
The play of the goal began with a solo adventure of Roawho was dodging rivals in the midfield until, after a tuya-mine with some players from Ceará, the ball ended up in the boots of Leandro Benegas. The Argentine nationalized Chilean attacker put a deep pass to Togniwhich he defined with a low cross shot.
The fans, enraged and without patience after a bad start to the season, began to sing against their team.
In the second part, everything changed. Ceará came out with a different attitude. He was bound to vindicate himself and mendoza He accepted the challenge by equalizing in the 61st minute from a penalty caused by an unfortunate handball in the Independiente area.
Nino Paraíba It seemed to cool things down when he received the second yellow card in the 63rd minute. It was now 10 against 10 with half an hour to go.
However, luck smiled on the Brazilians, who made it 2-1 through Zé Roberto, who had come on from the bench and took advantage of Sebastián Sosa’s poor start from a corner in the 66th minute.
Ceará assumed the leadership of Group G, in the absence of the match that will face Paraguayan General Caballero and Venezuelan Deportivo La Guaira. Only the first place goes to eighth.
On the next day, Independiente will host General Caballero and Ceará will play away against Deportivo La Guaira.
See the goals here:
